from day to day. This great trench of ground, containing in length 80 perches, and in breadth 28, began, with the hedges and trees thereon, to loose itself from the rest of the ground lying round about it, and therewithal to move, flide, and shoot fouthward, day and night, for the fpace of 11 days. The ground of two water-pits, the one having 6 feet depth of water, and the other 12 feet at the leaft, and about 4 perches over in breadth, having fundry tufts of alders and afhes growing in their bottoms, with a great rock of flone underneath, were not only removed out of their places, and carried fouthward 4 perches a-piece at the leaft, but withal mounted aloft, and became hills, with their fedge, flags, and black mud upon the tops of them, higher than the face of the water, which they had forfaken, by 9 feet; and in the place from which they had been removed, other ground, which lay higher, had defcended, and received the water on it. In one place of the plain field there was a great hole made, by the finking of the earth 30 feet deep, in breadth, in fome places, 2 perches over, and in length 5 or 6 perches. A hedge, with its trees, of 30 perches long was carried fouthward 7 perches at leaft: and there were feveral other finkings of the earth, in different places, of 65 feet, 47 feet, and 34 feet by which means, where the higheft hills had been, there were the deepest vales; and where the lowest dales were before, there was the highest ground.

The whole measure of the breaking ground was at least nine acres, feven days works, and four perches. The eye-witneffes to the truth of the above were Robert Bostocke, efq. juftice of the peace; fir John Studley, vicar; John Dawling, gent, and many others of the neighbourhood.

In the fpring of the year 1756, at Toys-hill, about a mile and a half eastward from the above, a like circumstance was obferved, in a field of two acres and an half of ground, the fituation of which was on the fide of a hill, inclining towards the fouth; the land of which kept moving, imperceptibly indeed, till the effect appeared, for fome time; by which means the upper, or northern fide was funk two or three feet, and became full of clefts and chafms, fome only a foot deep, others as large as ponds, fix or eight feet deep, and 10 or 12 feet fquare, and most of them filled with water. Part of a hedge moved about three rods fouthward, and though ftraight before, then formed an angle with its two ends. Another hedge feparated to the diftance of eight feet, the fouthern part, which was on a level before with the reft of the field, after this, overhung it as a precipice, about the height of 12 feet; and the land on each fide, which had not moved was covered with the reft, which folded over it, to the height of fix or seven feet.'

In this parish were born Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, late bishop. of Winchester, and the immortal general Wolfe.

In the park at Penfhurst stands the celebrated oak, now called Bears-oak, faid to be planted at fir Philip Sidney's birth,

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and which measures upwards of twenty-two foot in circumference.

This volume contains a description of eighty-feven parishes in the county of Kent, which are delineated with great accuracy, and rendered the subject of fuch information as must not only afford pleasure to the antiquary, but entertainment to all who would acquire a topographical knowlege of the county. Mr. Hafted has methodically arranged his materials on every article under diftin&t heads, which, though often treated copiously, are never fwelled with any detail that is either uninterefting, or impertinent in a work of this kind. The extraordinary pains with which thefe materials have been collected, are abundantly evident from the numerous references at the bottom of every page; and at the fame time that the volume is ornamented with a great number of plates, it is uniformly executed with a degree of judgement which has feldom been difplayed by thofe who have profecuted local refearches.

A radical and expeditious Cure for a recent Catarrhous Cough. Preceded by fome Obfervations on Respiration; with occafional and practical Remarks on fome other Difeafes of the Lungs, To which is added a Chapter on the Vis Vita, fo far as it is concerned in preferving and reinstating the Health of an Animal. Accompanied with fome Strictures on the Treatment of Compound Fractures. By John Mudge, F. R.S. 800. 35. Walter. 8vo.

AFTER treating, in the first chapter, of fome theoretical and pathological obfervations, remotely connected with the disease which forms the principal fubje&t of this volume, the author incidentally introduces feveral practical remarks, which are particularly worthy of attention. Among these we meet with fome relating to incipient tubercles of the lungs. Mr. Mudge obferves, that in the early state of this diforder, before the lungs have been greatly injured by the number of tubercles, or those not having advanced to fuppuration, are attended only with a dry, husky cough; next to occafional bleedings; temperance, and cooling medicines, perhaps the greatest benefit will be found to arife from fcapulary iffues, affifted by a vegetable diet and affes milk. For this purpose, he advises that the iffue fhould be much larger than those which modern practice has eftablished; fince there ought to be a juft proportion between the remedy and the disease, and an efficacious revulfion never can be made without a confider

an

able difcharge. He confirms the advantage of this method by an inftance he had experienced in himself, when young; at which time labouring under a pulmonary complaint, and having tried various other means without effect, he was completely cured by an iffue of between two and three inches diameter, and which afterwards held between forty and fifty peas.

We shall present our readers with the following cafe of a lady, who laboured under a catalepfy, which is related by the author in fupport of the expediency of deviating from common practice in refpect to the administration of other remedies.

• This lady had been long under the care of the late Dr. Huxham for this formidable disease, without finding the least relief; though, as may be supposed, the most efficacious medicines of the nervous tribe had not been neglected, and among the reft the powder of valerian was principally depended on; but it is to be obferved, that it had been given only in, 3fs at a dose. As a long course of this and other medicines had been totally ineffectual, infomuch that the disease seemed more and more confirmed; and as I had heretofore feen a cafe of this kind in St. Thomas's Hospital, where the cure was effected by very large dofes of this medicine, Ladvised a fimilar trial of it; the confequence of which was, that the patient had her refolution and patience rewarded by a perfect cure. She took of the valerian in fubftance half an ounce at a dose, twice a day, and did not discontinue the medicine till he had taken to the amount of feven pounds.'

A narrative of the effects of medicines, confirmed by faithful obfervation, being of the greatest advantage in practice, it may not be improper to communicate to our readers Mr. Mudge's remarks on the fpitting of blood in a pulmonary confumption. He obferves, that in this diforder, befides occafional bleedings to flacken the veffels, the use of the bark, keeping the prima viæ open, and fometimes a quieting anodyne, he knows from long experience there is not a more efficacious remedy than half a drachm of nitre, taken two or three times a day in a glass of water; the coolnefs it produces, and the quiet fuperinduced by removing the orgasm, and that reftleffness which, in a he&ic fever, fo generally attends this, complaint, being really amazing.

With respect to the catarrhous cough, or that which is fubfequent to the catching of cold, our author is of opinion that it proceeds from the pituitary membrane, which forms the internal furface of the lungs, being thickened, and in some mea

fure

fure inflamed. That fuch is actually the cafe, before the glands have been unloaded by the discharge of the obstructed mucus, he confiders as evident from the forenefs which, at the beginning of the diforder, the cough occafions in the breaft, but more particularly at the lower part of the windpipe, about the junction of the clavicles. In conformity to this idea of the diforder, Mr. Mudge obferves that the two great indications would be, to prevent as much as poffible the irritation arifing from the convulfive fhocks of the cough on the inflamed parts, and to remove the inflammation itself by fuch emollient applications as can conveniently be adminiftered. He farther remarks, that thefe intentions are thoroughly answered by opium, and by inhaling warm steams into the lungs; for adminiftering the latter of which he recommends the use of the inhaler, an inftrument which is described in the following terms.

The body of the inftrument holds about a pint; and the handle, which is fixed to the fide of it, is hollow. There is in the lower part of the veffel, where it is foldered to the handle, a hole, by means of which, and three others on the upper part of the handle, the water, when it is poured into the inhaler, will rife to the fame level in both. To the middle of the cover a flexible tube, about five or fix inches long, is fixed, with a mouth-piece of wood or ivory. Underneath the cover there is a valve fixed, whieh opens and fhuts the communication between the upper and internal part of the inhaler and the external air, for a purpose which shall be prefently explained.

When the mouth is applied to the end of the tube in the act of inspiration, the air rushes into the handle, and up through the body of warm water, and the lungs become, confequently, filled with hot vapour. In expiration, the mouth being ftill fixed to the tube, the breath, together with the fteam on the surface of the water in the inhaler, is forced up through the valve in the cover. In this manner therefore the whole act of refpiration is performed through the inhaler, without the neceffity, in the act of expiration, of either breathing through the nofe, or removing the pipe from the mouth.'

To this defcription of the apparatus, we fhall fubjoin, in the author's own words, the method directed for using it.

In the evening, a little before bed time, the patient, if of adult age, is to take three drachms, or as many tea fpoonfuls of elixir paregoricum, in a glafs of water: if the subject is younger, for inftance under five years old, one tea spoonful; or within that and ten years, two- [Each tea spoonful con

tains fomewhat lefs than 1 quarter of a grain of opium.] About three quarters of an hour after, the patient should go to bed, and being covered warm, the inhaler three parts filled with water nearly boiling (which from the coldness of the metal, and the time it crdinarily takes before it is ufed by the patient, will be of a proper degree of warmth) and being wrapped up in a napkin, but fo that the valve in the cover is not obftructed by it, is to be placed at the arm-pit, and the bed cloaths being drawn up and over it close to the throat, the tube is to be applied to the mouth, and the patient should infpire and expire through it about twenty minutes, or half

an hour.

It is very evident, as the whole act of refpiration is performed through the machine, that in infpiration the lungs will be filled with air which will be hot, and loaded with vapour, by paffing through the body of water; and in expiration, all that was contained in the lungs will, by mixing with the team on the furface of the water, be forced through the valve in the cover, and fettle on the furface of the body ander the bed-cloaths.

The great ufe of this particular conftruction of the inhaler is this. First, as there is no neceffity, at the end of every inspiration, to remove the tube from the mouth, in or der to expire from the lungs the vapour which had been received into them, this machine may therefore be used with as much eafe by children as elder people. And, fecondly, as a feverish habit frequently accompanies the diforder, the valve in that refpect alfo is of the utmost importance; for a fweat, or at least a free perfpiration, not only relieves the patient from the restless anxiety of a hot, dry, and fometimes parched kin, but is alfo, of all others, the most eligible evacuation for Femoving the fever; and it will be generally found that, after the inhaler fo conftructed hath been used a few minutes, the warm vapour under the cloaths will, by fettling upon the trunk, produce a fweat, which will gradually extend itfelf to the legs and feet.

In a catarrhous fever, or any feverish habit attending this cough, it would be proper to take a draught of warm thin whey a few minutes before the inhaler is used; and after the process is over, the fweat which it has produced may be continued by occafional fmall draughts of weak warm whey, or barley water. The fweating is by no means fo neceffary to the cure of the catarrhous cough, as that the fuccefs of the inhaler against that complaint at all depends upon it; yet I cannot help once more remarking, that when this diforder